Recommendation IHRD-9: Leadership Development
From Report of the Inquiry into Hyponatraemia-related Deaths, published 31 January 2018.
Recommendation
The highest priority should be accorded the development and improvement of leadership skills at every level of the health service including both executive and non-executive Board members.
In brief (written by this site)
In June 2023, the Department of Health (Northern Ireland) recorded this recommendation on leadership development as completed, placing it under a table heading designating Phase 1 recommendations as "ACTIONED" (Department of Health (Northern Ireland), Jun 2023). In that June 2023 document, the department applied the heading collectively across 66 actions together rather than providing an individual progress assessment for this measure (Department of Health (Northern Ireland), Jun 2023).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.
About this summary
This recommendation asks for cultural or behavioural change, which is difficult to verify from published sources alone. The record reflects policy commitments rather than measured outcomes.
Government response
My Department accepts the recommendations of the O'Hara Report in their entirety.
Blanket government agreement does not establish acceptance or delivery by each addressee. Some response passages cover groups of recommendations.
Scope of the government response
The Minister of Health accepted all 96 recommendations together, in one sentence of a written statement to the Northern Ireland Assembly on 25 March 2021. That sentence is not a response to any one recommendation alone, and the Department of Health published no response to each recommendation. The Department's statements of 31 January, 2 February and 30 March 2018 contain no acceptance of the recommendations.
Delivery
Department of Health (Northern Ireland) says completed (19 June 2023)
IHRD Phase 1 Recommendations – ACTIONED
From: IHRD Recommendations Phase 1 & Phase 2 (Updated June 2023)
Site note: These words are from the Department of Health's document linked on this page. The Department's website asks automated tools not to fetch its document files directly, so the site cites the page that links the document.
Site note: This is the heading of a table in the Department of Health's June 2023 list of the recommendations. It covers all 66 actions in that table together. It is the Department's table heading, not a statement about this recommendation alone. In October 2022 the Department also said that "full implementation of the 96 recommendations is by no means complete", which refers to the programme as a whole.
The tracker describes this as a long-term recommendation: systemic or cultural, with no single completion point.
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Who has spoken
- Department of Health NI
Response - Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
Delivery statement